The Compleat Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most AnglersJ.M. Dent and Company, at Aldine House, 1896 - 319 sider |
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... keep vices out of sight ; but if he professes to write a Life , he must represent it as it really was . ' Peculiarities were not to be concealed , he said , and his own were not veiled by Boswell . ' Nobody can write the life of a man ...
... keep vices out of sight ; but if he professes to write a Life , he must represent it as it really was . ' Peculiarities were not to be concealed , he said , and his own were not veiled by Boswell . ' Nobody can write the life of a man ...
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... keep your Worms , -but others like Grave Earth as well . No doubt grave earth is quite as efficacious . These remarks show how Izaak was equipped in books and in practical information : it follows that his book xlvi The COMPLETE ANGLER.
... keep your Worms , -but others like Grave Earth as well . No doubt grave earth is quite as efficacious . These remarks show how Izaak was equipped in books and in practical information : it follows that his book xlvi The COMPLETE ANGLER.
Side lv
... keep a top above twenty years . ' Cotton prefers rods ' made in Yorkshire , ' having advanced from the home - made stage . His were spliced , and kept up all through the season , as he had his water at his own door , while Walton ...
... keep a top above twenty years . ' Cotton prefers rods ' made in Yorkshire , ' having advanced from the home - made stage . His were spliced , and kept up all through the season , as he had his water at his own door , while Walton ...
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... keep Otter - dogs ought to have pensions from the King , to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base Otters , they do so much mischief . VENATOR . But what say you to the Foxes of the Nation , would not you as willingly ...
... keep Otter - dogs ought to have pensions from the King , to encourage them to destroy the very breed of those base Otters , they do so much mischief . VENATOR . But what say you to the Foxes of the Nation , would not you as willingly ...
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... keep it ; men that are con- demned to be rich , and then always busy or discontented : for these poor rich - men , we Anglers pity them perfectly , and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy . No , no ...
... keep it ; men that are con- demned to be rich , and then always busy or discontented : for these poor rich - men , we Anglers pity them perfectly , and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy . No , no ...
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a-fishing art of Angling artificial fly AUCEPS bait Barbel belly better bite body bred breed called Carp catch caught Chub colour commendation Compleat Angler contemplation Coridon creatures Dace DAY-continued discourse divers Donne Donne's doth doubtless Du Bartas earth excellent feathers feed fish flies fresh frog Gesner hair hath Hawks honest hook hostess hunting Izaak kind learned leave let me tell live look master meat melter Michael Drayton minnow months mouth musick namely nature never observed Otter patience Peter Pike PISCATOR pleasant pleasure Pliny pond pray recreation rivers Roach Salmon salmon fly scholar season simple men sing Sir Francis Bacon Sir Henry Wotton smell song spawn sport stream sweet syllabub tail told Trout turn usually VENATOR verjuice Walton wings winter wonders wool worm
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Side 152 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Side 153 - There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun both rise and set: There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away: And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Side 152 - And raise my low-pitch'd thoughts above Earth, or what poor mortals love : Thus, free from lawsuits and the noise Of princes' Courts, I would rejoice ; Or, with my Bryan and a book, Loiter long days near...
Side 149 - ... rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie ; My music shews you have your closes, And all must die.
Side 54 - Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place; Where I may see my quill, or cork, down sink, With eager bite of pike, or bleak, or dace; And on the world and my creator think: Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace; And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war or wantonness.
Side 105 - Slippers, lined choicely for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of straw, and ivy buds, With coral clasps, and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Side 101 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat...
Side 106 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Side 75 - I'll be as certain to make him a good dish of meat as I was to catch him : I 'll now lead you to an honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.
Side li - I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence : " that they were too pleasant to be looked on, but only on holidays.